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   Pamela Duncan to Appear at Sunday with Friends on March 21

ABINGDON, Va. — Pamela Duncan, one of the rising stars in Southern literature, will read from her work on Sunday, March 21, at 3:00 p.m. at the Washington County Public Library.  Her appearance is part of the annual Sunday with Friends series sponsored by the Friends of the Washington County Public Library.

Duncan was born in Asheville in 1961 and raised in Shelby , North Carolina .  She holds a B.A. in journalism from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an M.A. in English and creative writing from North Carolina State University, where Lee Smith was her teacher and mentor.

Duncan ’s first novel was Moon Women (2001), which follows three generations of women in the Moon family:  80-year-old matriarch Marvelle Moon; her middle-aged daughters Ruth Ann and Cassandra; and Ruth Ann’s 19-year-old daughter Ashley.

Duncan ’s new novel Plant Life was published in 2003.  It revolves around a group of friends who work at a textile plant in a small Southern town.

Lee Smith calls Plant Life “an American classic . . . a compelling and moving portrait of an entire community whose lives have been determined by the cotton mill.  Never have the lives of Southern working women been so well documented, their stories so truly told.”

Plant Life recently won the Sir Walter Raleigh Award for the best work of fiction published by a North Carolina writer last year.

The reading will be held in the conference room at the library and will be free for the public.

The presentation will be followed by a social hour, book sales and signing.

For more information on this event or the entire spring series, call Ida Patton at 276-676-6390.

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